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The easiest way to fix this, Patricia, is to move the two files found in /wp-content/plugins/xdforum/

1) xdforumtemplate.php
2) xdforumposttemplate.php

move those two files into your theme directory:

/wp-content/themes/YOURTHEME/

That should bypass that error. If not please post any concerns/questions at http://www.xdweb.net and we will do our best to help you further. Hope this helped.

whew! that’s good to know; thanks for testing that. now all i gotta do is understand what i did! hahah

Wow, ask and you just may recieve:

I just saw this new plugin: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/45124?replies=9 it may be exactly what I need/want. I’m going to d/l it and test it.

Like I mentioned before, this is kinda of an band-aid ugly fix. I’m sure some of these WP gurus would probably tell me that this is way wrong. However, it did work for me.

Make BACKUP FILES!!!
/wp-admin/profile.php
Locate:

<label><?php _e('Jabber / Google Talk:') ?>
<input type="text" name="jabber" value="<?php echo $profileuser->jabber ?>" />
</label>

Post after:

<label><?php _e('MSN:') ?>
<input type="text" name="msn" value="<?php echo $profileuser->msn ?>" />
</label>


<label><?php _e('ICQ:') ?>
<input type="text" name="icq" value="<?php echo $profileuser->icq ?>" />
</label>


/wp-admin/admin-functions.php
Locate:

if (isset ($_POST['yim']))
$user->yim = wp_specialchars(trim($_POST['yim']));

Post after:

if (isset ($_POST['icq']))
$user->icq = wp_specialchars(trim($_POST['icq']));
if (isset ($_POST['msn']))
$user->msn = wp_specialchars(trim($_POST['msn']));


/wp-includes/registration-functions.php
Locate:

update_usermeta( $user_id, 'yim', $yim );

Post after:

update_usermeta( $user_id, 'msn', $msn );
update_usermeta( $user_id, 'icq', $icq );

/wp-content/themes/myTheme/author.php
I just put this in my author page to display the msn. Just change the value for icq, etc.

<?php echo $curauth->msn; ?>


Nothing was adjusted on my Db. I believe that things like the icq, msn, etc. are stored through metadata keys. Like I said before… it just worked for me this way. I didn’t say I totally understood what I did.. heheh.

I wish they could just make an admin option to have those messenger fields active/deactive and add a way for custom profile fields that would dynamically add template tags. (wishful thinking)

Anyway, I don’t think I messed with anything else. Hopefully it will work for you too.

Well, I have managed to “activate” the MSN & ICQ and even added a field for an AVATAR URL. And it works fine however, I fudged somewhere or I am not understanding something:

I now can’t delete entirely a profile field. For example, if I have something in my YIM field then decide to delete it completely and leave a blank field and then update my profile it will still be there. HOWEVER, I CAN modify the entry and type in ‘n/a’ or whatever and it will update it that way. It just won’t allow an empty field… odd.

Soooo, at least I got it to this point. Now to figure out the empty field bit.

As for the memb last visit thing, I would favor to say that it would probably be best if that were in a plugin. I can try to include that in my hack but the way my profile code is turning out– it’s looking pretty damn ugly. 🙂 But it its working… kinda. 😉

I am currently trying to work on a hack for this myself. I also am trying to add a field for users to add their avatar/gravatar url. (yea i know there are avatar plugins but sometimes a simple field is all you need.

I’ve added the field in the profile.php page, it can read the data from the db but I cannot write to the db. I must not have my sql insert statement correct. oh well… i’ll keep hacking at this one. I need all the messengers listed as well.